Special Women to Have Won the Nobel Prize with Their Remarkable Contributions

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

A lifelong New Yorker, the late Rosalyn Sussman Yalow was a renowned American medical physicist with a concentration on the development of the radioimmunoassay technique. She was a co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Andrew Schally and Roger Guillemin. The work that feted her was done with Solomon Berson, a physician.

Yalow’s work redefined the perception of the causes of Type 2 diabetes, which they proved occurs due to the body’s inefficient use of insulin and not a lack of it. The study, known as RIA, can be used as a measurement for hormones in the blood.

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